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"I was angry and bitter"

"No kidding, Sherlock" Saer ht to break it off I wasn’t near good enough for her and I knew it Actually, it didn’t co surprise when she wanted to call it quits It hat I’d been expecting all along"

"You not good enough for Nichole? That’s bull and you know it"

"You’re wrong No way did I deserve that woood You know that better than anyone I didhter as best I could But Nichole and h"

"She did, and I thank God every day for whatever it was that I did to deserve her" Rocco paused and took a s of his beer

"You saying that’s what is going on with me?"

"Can’t say, Sam You’re the only one who can answer that"

He mulled it over for severalto me like no one else, not even Trish"

"She knows about Trish and the baby"

"That’s a perfect exa his beer "Never told any other wo about Trish, but Beth knows She even knows Lucinda’s birthday, and it didn’t take et around Beth andMatthehat drove you over the edge"

"Basically, yes" He hated to ad kind, Rocco You know that"

"Can’t say that I do"

Sauys who gives up cigarettes after twenty years of s and you’re talking to everyone about giving up their sarettes now?"

"No, we’re talking about falling in love You love Nichole and all at once you see unicorns and rainbows for everyone else"

Laughing, Rocco snorted beer out of his nose "Unicorns and rainbows?"

"Yeah That sh-- ain’t for me"

"You oen a dollar"

"Don’t, either I stopped ht up in what you have with Nichole you think it’s for everyone and it’s not"

"I didn’t set you up with Beth Nichole did"

"Okay, fine, but it’s the salasses You expect everyone else to feel the sa, is it?"

"It is for iven him any answers; he feltto explain all this to Beth?" Rocco asked

If he knew that he wouldn’t have asked Rocco to hed heavy on hisyou correctly, you want her to date other etto do at this point, I’d feel better if she had soht No way can I continue to live up to her hero worship She needs to date other et a taste of the world, before she ties herself to me"